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ABB of Quebec City, Quebec, received a contract to supply the primary components for a Japanese satellite that will measure greenhouse gases in support of the Kyoto protocol, ABB recently...

Viasat Broadcasting hopes its personal video recorder (PVR) offering in the Nordic region will help it compete more effectively in the direct-to-home market. But the company admits it may take...

The SSETI Express, the first spacecraft to be designed and built solely by European students, has been shipped to Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced July...

When one thinks about a satellite’s role in this year’s Tour de France, one likely will think about how satellites are doing their part to provide broadcasters around the globe...

NSE & PA Wall Street analysts have launched coverage of New Skies Satellites. The first investment house to offer coverage of the stock was Lehman Brothers, which gave New Skies...

Pace Micro Technology reported profits before tax of 8.1 million pounds ($14.2 million) for the year ended June 4. At the same stage last year, the profit number was 5.9...

Mainstream Data signed an agreement with Thompson and its Technicolor Digital Cinema business to provide an end-to-end high-speed digital satellite network for the distribution of pre-show content to movie theaters...

Terrestrial subscription radio service provider Chum Ltd. filed a petition with the Canadian government challenging the licenses awarded to Sirius Canada and Canadian Satellite Radio, the Canadian partners of Sirius...

Back in the days of World War II, it was pretty much unheard of for a U.S. soldier to phone home. The Korean War wasn’t much different, and Vietnam was...

Panamsat, Kencast Inc. and Trinity Workplace Learning took part in a demonstration of what Panamsat called “the first satellite-delivered live streaming video to handheld devices” using a WiMAX terrestrial wireless...